West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-03-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

inherited $3.50, 90, has refused thirty offers
OF marriage in the last three months.
VIM B. Axley,a co'o-ed boy a gel 10 years,
was stabbed TO the heart and k llel b. three
small eolored boys at Charles;oa, S. c. The
murderers escaped.
Geneva Stouer, aged II years, % L1ucas-
ter, Pa, committed suicide by taking dose
OF rat poison. She gave as a reasoa for the
act that her mother would not allow her TO
so out at night
A cyclone swept through Tampa, Flor ida,
destroying several houses. Two children
were killed, one woml1 was fatally injured,
and several persons were seriously hurt Tho
Pecunilry los is about $4,000.
AT Abbot, Texls, joe Harden AMI Hugh
jenkins had di,pu'e wa,cl en- lei in the ia
tai wouHdiny OF tn, former and the death OF
the latter. Both were highly esio,m,i men,
Harden being married and bat recently from
New York State.
All reports regarding the composition OF
the Railroad Commission under ths Inter
state Commerce law are yet "a purely spec
uIative, as they have be,n any time since the
adjournment OF Congress. Ditto in regard
60 the Sscretarysh.p OF the Treasury.
Tue barkentine Tcopc RI arrived from
Tahiti, and reports the G. rmau steamer Tai
tatn, hence Jluutry % with general m,r-
caandise for ralitl, burned a. SEA, previous
TO Feb-ulry Is, IN laHtule II south, lo1gi-
tn lie l4s west. There was no news Of the
crew
Frank A. Scott, the defaultng cashier OF
the Publishing firm Of Webs,er ~ Co, OF
New York, confessed to Charles l.. Webster,
AZ the county jul, that h, appropriated to
his own use S95, 90 Of the firms money. The
prisoner further said tn It n would not resist
any action taken by the firm.
The secoal trial at Louisville OF Michae,
Klelin, for the murder Of his wife, August
Z, 1855, resulted IN his being sentencsl TO the
penitentiary for life. Upll his first trial b,
was Sentenced to hang. A strong plea OF IN,
sanity was made in the trial just concluded.
There was destructive csnA ,gration az
Rock Vill, S. c.. Thurs lay night Tn, post
olic h tel, Fra Nlaond BanS, sayings
bank. d. - sore OF w. l.. Ro Idly 81 Co. NJ
Johnson q Co., Frew Bros, Steele Bros. &
Co., Fewele & Watson, w. C. Rid & Co
II -nth 81 Co., AMI about ID SIN, shops
burned. The probable loss is $4,000
The latest advices from Oz,rk, NJ, where
tine Bald Knobbsrs of Christian county, 'ately
arrested, are c)nfilei, are that six m lre OF
the bard have been captured and that - are
now under guard in Ozlrk. very strong
guard is kept over the prisoners an every
precau:ion has boon taken to prevent "a sur
prise. as we'll as TO resist an attack The econ
SeSsion Of I1mln, although denied by Chief
Walker hss greatly depressed the men.
The Irish police fired upon baud OF moon.
lighters at Tralee and killed one OF them
named Ltneha
Kansas City, Mo. was made reserve CITY
under the provisions Of the acts passed at
the last session OF Congress.
Philippine Muth, aged IS years, a bride Of
scarcely two weeks, shot herself dead in
her room on the third flor of Now York
ten III mt
The arrest Of Father X Ter has thoroughly
ar used the Irish Americans of New York.
Many predict that it will lea 10 a civil war
in Iceland.
Joseph Savre, a commercial traveller from
New York, reported as among the guests Of
the K chmond Hoe, fire at Buff 40, has
turned up all right
Ia accordance with a compromise between
III Buffalo citizens commit and the Tell-
phone Company, the cable of the latter on
Miin street was taken down NJ nday morn
ing.
Instructions have been issued to the As
sistsnt Treasurers at New York, Philadel,
phia and Boston to rec ive deposits for 81 and
e s lyer certic ties, All resume the issu3
+ those notes.
The Austrian ship Sobodna, from New Or
leans for kevel, cotton laden, is ashore Of
M'lasses Reef Key West. Wreckers are re-
moving her cargo OF cotton with prospec
Of SWING a large portion.
The contract for the construction Of the
Missouri Centr ] Railroad, which is b run
between -. Louis and Kansas CITY. has b en-
signed, and gr. uad vii be broken. and the
work Of grading b. gun some time IN April
The issue Of standard silver dollars from
the m ms during the week end Il March 10
was flt,Sg5; during the CORRESPONDING De-
riod OF as,year $1,000 The s1ipm .nts
otfractional silver coio since March amount
70 {23C5s
NJ more bodies have been recovered from
the ruins Of the burned Buff ro hotel tn,
safe was op med an thirty thousaa dollars
~ forty q oufani dollars worth Of diamond
-ec1rsi The patients at.the hotpitals are do
Ing a. well ss could b3sxpsctei
The powder flc Org o. J. G. An houy. Sit
uatel one mile w e. Of 81 zauuse, Mich.
eTpiodei killing J. H Stanley and his son
flbert, aged D. years Tie bulldog wa.
blown t9 atoms Tn, loss will reach aJ,u.
ply. 'fla aud dollars.